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Storm Journal: The Story of the Bay Town Inn

Storm Journal: The Story of the Bay Town Inn e s s a y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Storm Journal: The Story of the Bay Town Inn by Ellis Anderson “Anything that survived the storm is coated with sludge, discolored, mangled at least to some degree. It’s got that ‘Katrina Patina.’ Jewelry, artwork, tools, photographs, furniture, clothes—all have been transformed by the storm into something vaguely recognizable, yet inalterably changed.” Photograph courtesy of Joe Tomasovsky. 28 ditor’s Note: Positioned just east of the eye of the storm, Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Mississippi, suffered the brunt of Katrina’s wrath. Winds of above 30 miles per hour drove thirty-five-foot tidal waves (a world record) ashore, pounding the Gulf Coast E for eight hours, devastating the Mississippi coastline and ex- tending wind and water damage more than fifty miles inland. In Bay St. Louis, a town of 8,000, where this account takes place, an estimated eighty to ninety per- cent of all buildings, residential and commercial, were demolished or sustained major damage leaving them uninhabitable. This essay is adapted from Anderson’s blog, The Language of Loss, found at http:// katrinapatina.blogspot.com, where Anderson gives a http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Southern Cultures University of North Carolina Press

Storm Journal: The Story of the Bay Town Inn

Anderson, Ellis.
Southern Cultures , Volume 14 (2) – May 10, 2008
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e s s a y . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Storm Journal: The Story of the Bay Town Inn by Ellis Anderson “Anything that survived the storm is coated with sludge, discolored, mangled at least to some degree. It’s got that ‘Katrina Patina.’ Jewelry, artwork, tools, photographs, furniture, clothes—all have been transformed by the storm into something vaguely recognizable, yet inalterably changed.” Photograph courtesy of Joe Tomasovsky. 28 ditor’s Note: Positioned just east of the eye of the storm, Bay St. Louis and Waveland, Mississippi, suffered the brunt of Katrina’s wrath. Winds of above 30 miles per hour drove thirty-five-foot tidal waves (a world record) ashore, pounding the Gulf Coast E for eight hours, devastating the Mississippi coastline and ex- tending wind and water damage more than fifty miles inland. In Bay St. Louis, a town of 8,000, where this account takes place, an estimated eighty to ninety per- cent of all buildings, residential and commercial, were demolished or sustained major damage leaving them uninhabitable. This essay is adapted from Anderson’s blog, The Language of Loss, found at http:// katrinapatina.blogspot.com, where Anderson gives a

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